Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda Williams, who directed the rom-com “Lisa Frankenstein,” has taken to Instagram to urge people to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her late father.
Williams died in 2014 at the age of 63. The famed comedian has subsequently become one of a number of celebrities who have passed away who have been the subject of AI-generated videos from users that have been flooding social media in recent weeks.
Zelda, who previously commented on the use of AI back during the SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023, says in her post:
“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want.
She then indicated that seeing the legacies of real people condensed by others into “horrible TikTok slop puppeteering” is maddening. She adds:
“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross. And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed.”
AI videos have come under the spotlight following last week’s release of OpenAI’s Sora 2 which has spurned a flood of AI-generated videos online alongside Google’s Veo and China-owned Kling.
